What are your thoughts regarding the recent addition non-canon content?
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Timelines contains quite a fair bit of non-canon content now.
We've got the whole TNG Mirror Universe characters, Aviator Yar, Tuskegee Mayweather, Mirror Janeway, the infamous 23rd Century Martok amongst others.
Recently, we've seen the inclusion of Army Chaplain Odo in what can only be described as a M*A*S*H cross-over event and now we have the inclusion of a fake planet in homage of some glass sculptor that the majority of us had never heard of.
My question is this:
"What are your thoughts regarding the recent addition of non-canon content?".
We've got the whole TNG Mirror Universe characters, Aviator Yar, Tuskegee Mayweather, Mirror Janeway, the infamous 23rd Century Martok amongst others.
Recently, we've seen the inclusion of Army Chaplain Odo in what can only be described as a M*A*S*H cross-over event and now we have the inclusion of a fake planet in homage of some glass sculptor that the majority of us had never heard of.
My question is this:
"What are your thoughts regarding the recent addition of non-canon content?".
What are your thoughts regarding the recent addition non-canon content? 120 votes
Happy! I love the new content and would love to see what else DB has op their sleeves.
17%
21 votes
Cautious - I like some of the work that they have done. But I'm worried we will stray too far from true Trek.
41%
50 votes
Indifferent - I couldn't give a monkey's if the content is canon or not. Just give me more content!
15%
19 votes
Upset - I was under the impression that this game would be canon only.
13%
16 votes
Angry! - This content is offensive to me. I'm seriously rethinking spending any further time or money on this game.
4%
5 votes
Other - Because there's always room for a new perspective.
7%
9 votes
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I thought the M*A*S*H event was actually pretty clever.
Some of the art aside, I also like the TNG mirror crew. I already knew about the comics, the mega-event actually prompted me to buy them to read. They are kind of Beta-canon, since they weren't made up by DB, they just weren't from a TV/Movie source.
When DB made an Aviator Yar, we should've known that 23rd Century Martok was coming.
You are aware that Star Trek is fiction...right?
It just seems like the idea of non-canon characters opens up so many doors for opportunity that DB has yet to step through.
This is a silly statement that I suggest we all just ignore moving forward.
There has never an on going faltering of the space time continuum.
Besides that point, most on the list on not recent.
Beyond the Symantecs, it depends on each work on its own merits.
Mirror Picard, yay.
Mirror data, boo.
Aviation Yar, Yay
Potato Head martok, boo.
If the quality is of the standard set previously by this game and in accordance with with quality of trek as a whole then I look forward to Cardassia Prisoner Riker,
Enterprise Captain Worf, Romulan Liberation leader Tomalok and Kai Kira.
The quality of the art itself justifies or disqualifies.
The addition of the cartoon series and the mirror TNG crew that existed without being seen on screen was borderline at best for me, especially with some of the terrible artwork.
If Star Trek didn't have such a well known and expansive universe to draw upon, then I would be more open to alternative, non-canon representations. However, there is still so much from canon trek that has not yet made its way into the game, that I see no reason to prioritize non-canon content.
It's no surprise that it's canon since several of the script ideas were intended for a 4th season of the Original Series
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I'm not really a fan of the Augment ones -- they're just weird looking, unexplained headswaps. I also loathe Borg Geordi. I was shocked that he didn't have a Borg-ified VISOR.
I don’t want to see so many non-canon crew that we never get to see more of our existing favorites, of course. There are many more great characters out there to choose from to make a bevy of new stories for events (and hopefully more future Episodes). I just don’t get my knickers bunched up when a non-canon crew is released regardless of whether or not it’s an interesting character or one that fits into the given storyline, as so many here seem to do.
I agree! Parallels is one of my favorite episodes. I love when you see all those different Enterprises. Heck, there are a lot of other universes we know nothing about that could be incorporated.
I see what you did there.
I think I'm in the same boat as you on all of this. If you're going to make a non-canon character, at least have the art be decent. i.e. I somehow get the feeling that people wouldn't have complained as much about Mirror Data if his art wasn't so off-putting.
I think my only gripe with MASH Odo is that it would have made more sense (to me, anyway) to fit him into the whole "Second Battle of New York" plotline. It's established non-canon and a bit less hammer-on-head about last week being a secret MASHup event.
I was skeptical at first about the Army Odo but then with the storyline from DB, it made it pretty good.
I have to compliment @RennJaxo for the comment that Odo should maybe have had a MED skill with all the MED seats in the last F.E. shuttles and not much Dominion crew having the MED skill. Plus it would've made the M*A*S*H tie-in a bit better(army hospital)
Army Odo had 3 skills, if DB would've givin the MED skill to Odo, I'm sure it would've been the lowest of all three like Diseased Founder, I would be alright with this and again, made something a little different from the other Odos.
Just my point zero two dollars' worth, but games are meant to be fun, and creative/interesting characters that are invented for this game ARE fun. Like say next week they add in Assimilated Porthos, are you really going to pretend that wouldn't be awesome?! Or if they made a card where Q turned himself into Gandalf?!
Nothing that happens in this game is a threat AT ALL to the canonical legacy of Gene Roddenberry, lighten up and have fun.
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TLDR: More like Yar (so long as you don't nerf her) and less like planet syphilis
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I really like "triva-based" (sort of) additions like Army Chaplain Odo though. It's like a puzzle being solved when someone on the forum figures out where it's from and then links other stuff to it.
I also like subtler nods, like giving Yelgrun the "musician" trait as a nod to the actor playing him. Again, it would be too much if every other character had this, but as an occasional thing I see it as a treat.
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I put the spore drive, Chaplain Odo and the glass planet into the last, as in they're a bit weird and don't really fit too well.
Aviator Yar and Combat Medic Paris though, fit into the more likely variety of non-canon. I can imagine both of them as Holodeck characters, at least.
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Oh man… now after seeing that I really want to see these guys added to the game.
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